Lord of Arcane

Once the factory shuts down, the relevant personnel will have no income. Without income, there will be no consumption. If there is no consumption, other producers will also have no income. If this chain reaction continues, the territory will collapse.

Of course, the reality will not be so simple and crude, it will be more complicated, and Xia Duo will take care of it, but in any case, now that the factory is established, he will not let the factory stop operations easily, nor will he take care of it easily.

Thinking of this, Xia Duo's expression became serious. He told Cade and Melk, "Although it is a bicycle factory, there is no need to be stuck on bicycles. The factory still needs to use its subjective initiative to develop more new products. , otherwise, will work still be suspended after half a year?

"In addition, the territory will send a group of people to Evereska next month, and the bicycle factory will also send a few people there. They usually learn Elvish with us. When you have time, go ride on the street with me, and don't take the initiative. What are you selling? If an elf asks, I will introduce them to the Tower of Time’s shop in Everesca.”

It would be impossible if we didn’t take the initiative to sell bicycles in the territory. In less than half a year, everyone in the territory would have one. It would be bad to stop work, and it would be even worse not to stop work. If you can’t digest it yourself, then you can only sell it to others.

Although I have known the power of industrialization for a long time, and I was born in a society with developed industry, I only watched from the sidelines, and did not personally participate in it, let alone take the lead.

Now Xia Duo knew that once the industrial train started, it would never stop. Even if he didn't say anything, the factory would still find a way to take the first step to sell the bicycles and seek external sales.

This is just a bicycle, there will be more industrial products in the future!

Xia Duo can almost imagine that the words he will say most often in the future may be——

"Open the door, free trade!"

Fortunately, the countries in the Northland Alliance have signed a free trade agreement.

In the past, Netheril was actually very resistant to free trade, because this meant that the elves' more mature and advanced products could easily enter the Netherese market and plunder a lot of wealth.

Instead of individual Netherese chambers of commerce monopolizing elven products and seizing the opportunity to seize massive wealth, for example, the city of Conifera in the east of Bactria is an important trading port for Netheril and Cormanthor.

But Conifera City is in the hands of the Seven Towers. Although they have paid the development costs in advance, but from another perspective, isn't it a monopoly of trade?

Although the Seven Towers did not prohibit other merchants from going to Conifera, they did not say that they would exempt other people from the transaction tax. Not only did they not exempt them, but they doubled the tax.

Of course, even so, territories like Savile Territory that can participate in cross-border trade can still make money, but half of the money they transfer must be distributed to the Seven Towers first.

The more others earn, the more Seven Towers earns. As long as the border crossing remains, it will never lose money.

Even now after the signing of the free trade agreement, trade between humans and elves still takes place at a few fixed ports as in the past.

On the one hand, there is always a process from conservatism to openness; on the other hand, of course, it is a small tacit understanding between the border port controllers on both sides of the transaction.

It is true that the general trend is free trade, but I am a local lord, and it is not illegal to withhold some in advance. I paid a high price, and they sold it to me first, which is completely reasonable.

Or, if you don’t trade with me, I won’t provide you with some kind of convenience.

As the temporarily weak side, Netheril actually hopes that international trade will be limited to a limited area and scope, but what about the elves?

Xia Duo could completely predict that once some elven merchants find that it is easier to plunder wealth by coming to humans, they will definitely come over in droves, and it is impossible for the border lords to stop them.

Who can turn the tide by then?

Only the Daxia Territory has started the industrial revolution! As the saying goes, "Trade barriers in times of poverty, free trade in times of prosperity." Xia Duo didn't want to see elven merchants come over to harvest the interior wildly, so he decided to take the initiative.

This may lead to changes in individual clauses in the alliance's free trade agreement, but it is better to harvest it yourself first than to complain about pain after being harvested by others, and it is better to take the initiative than to suffer passively.

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Next, when Xia Duo visited other factories, he also made the same request, that is - based on our own factory, continue to develop new products!

The Friendship Tower is positioned as a multicultural exchange center for various countries in the North, but for the current Daxia Territory, it can serve as an important exhibition and sales center for the territory's industrial products.

Currently, the two products that Xia Duo plans to promote are bicycles and magic rubber shoes. These are non-magical items. Although they are inseparable from the support of magic, they do not possess any special magical aura.

The main reason is that Xia Duo is worried that once civilian magical weapons such as magic lamps enter the elf market, elf products will be introduced to the Nise market.

This is not impossible. In terms of production capacity, the current territory may not be able to keep up with the elven countries. It is true that the elves like to harvest at a high price, but no one stipulates that they must harvest at a high price!

It can also be dumped at a low price, completely destroying Netheril's potential civilian magic weapon market.

There are a large number of civilian magic weapons. Although they are not yet popular among all people, they are not a small number. Once the Mage Tower Organization in Netheril produces them and no one buys them, wouldn't it be a waste of money for themselves? .

If it fails to be produced, which is even worse, it means that Elf products are completely exclusive, and it will be extremely difficult to compete in the future.

Therefore, Xia Duo needs to be careful now.

"The population is still not large enough, otherwise the internal circulation alone will be enough to get through the early stage, and there is no need to worry about the outside world! It's not like now!"

A population of half a million may seem like a lot, but it is not enough for industrialization. Apart from anything else, at least half of the products produced must be able to be digested internally.

If you can't even digest half of it, what's the point of talking about internal circulation?

Xia Duo estimated that if he wanted to build a preliminary magic industry, he would need at least nearly 10 million people. With so many people, the current Daxia Territory would certainly not be satisfied, so it would need to continue to absorb the population.

At the same time, internal surplus products are sold and replaced with resources to maintain internal production operations. This is expansionary.

Planned production can also be implemented. Anyway, there is overcapacity. As long as we produce less, we can invest resources in the research field to increase productivity and guide industrial upgrading; we can also invest in the tertiary industry to increase employment, improve people's living standards, and ensure social stability.

Actively cultivating internal strength in this way can be maintained and continued to develop, but no matter how small the internal cycle changes, it will be difficult to withstand drastic changes in the international situation (unless there is an explosion of technology, and there is a black technology that is several generations ahead of other countries, but the population is small and the technology is The chance of an outbreak is also small).

Now is the era of the Northland Alliance. Exchanges between countries are frequent and developing rapidly. Internal circulation alone is not enough. Exchanges and cooperation can promote technological development and cultural prosperity.

Of course, Xia Duo will not choose the path of self-isolation, but will still actively contact the outside world, continue to strengthen itself and accelerate its own development through win-win cooperation.